Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is a sweet little external disc player. Integrated easily with my MacBook. It’s stable when moved, slim and lightweight.

This is just great. I had it for over a year and it works perfectly. Just plug it in and you're ready to listen to music or watch DVDs. Never had any problems. Great product. I find most everything I purchase at Best Buy works great and the price is fabulous

Had to buy this LG - 8x External USB Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive for my new omen 30L gaming desktop since it did not come is a cd drive was unable to load games etc. this drive is pretty fast for an 8x and works great excellent valve for price. I would buy again

No nonsense external drive. The ease of use could not be improved upon. I purchased a new laptop one month ago and there is no built in CD/DVD drive. I've used it to install photo editing tools that I have on CDs only but I guess that it does much more..

Super easy to use, literally just plug it in. I like how small it is for ease of storage.

It's Very compact. Very good for traveling with. So far it has performed flawlessly,no problems at all. It operates quietly. (Not noisy). It is a very good device to have since most modern laptops no longer have a built in cd/dvd player. It is worth the money that I paid for it.

A very good product for the price. Easy to use and set up.

This has done a fine job and is working as advertised. So far we have played back commercially released movie DVDs, burned a DVD-R of home movie recordings, and burned an audio CD. We have not tried the many other supported disc formats. Seems to be plug and play with Mac operating system. The eject button on the front only worked when there was no disc or after "disconnecting" the drive in the Mac Finder window (but not physically disconnecting), but not while paused or stopped with an active disc in the device; however, I believe this is a quirk of the Mac OS and not the burner. Would have liked the eject button on the DCD drive to also be an independent manual override any time, but there is the usual pinhole for that, if needed. And it may behave differently with other operating systems.

My newest laptop did not come with a CD/DVD drive, so I bought this to play music. All I had to do is plug it into a USB port and I was able to use Windows Media Center to play music. As simple as could be. It seems to have a little more problem playing old scratched CD's than the built-in CD player on my old laptop, but in general it works great. It comes with CyberLink software which I think can burn CDs and DVDs. Nothing for viewing DVDs however. I had to download the VLC media player (which is free). That's why I gave a 3 not a 4. My laptop with a built-in CD/DVD includes software for burning and playing CDs and DVDs.

Easy to use and I love being able to download CDS and DVDS related to my sewing hobby.

Has functioned in ever way it has needed to, reading, writing, all without a hitch. Even reasonably quiet when burning discs.

I am now able to enjoy my DVDs! This is the perfect product as it is easy to use, convenient and does not need to be upgraded! Easy to install and dovetailed into my hardware.

Got the cd to be able to see images from xrays and mris. My computer doesn’t have cd player any more and this works well. Posting 1 year out and still working great

Imagine my surprise when I bought a new computer thinking it would have a DVD drive. Oops. Only place I buy my electronics helped me out. Perfect size. Works great. Would buy again.

This external USB drive works great! I had purchased two other ones from another source and neither of them worked correctly. This one is easy to use and plays all of my dvds and cds without any problems. Thanks, Best Buy!

I had to have this since absolutely NONE of the new design laptops contain an on-board CD/DVD drive any longer. It installed easily enough and I tested it out by playing a DVD or 2, no issues. I mainly bought it to import physical CDs from my massive collection into my digital library and haven't had a chance to get to any of that yet as I've only had the device about a month. I know - who does that anymore, just stream it. Newsflash - that only works where you have ample signal and believe me there are plenty of places where that just will not work. So far so good, seems like a solid enough component.

Needed a portable external drive to use on a trip with a MacBook. This device filled the need very well. Good build quality with easy plug-and-play functionality at a reasonable price.

It was easy to find and works good. While the store was busy I was still able to get an answer on where it was at.

Recently bought a new laptop that didn't come with a built in DVD/CD drive. With this external drive, can now watch DVD's or listen to CD's on my laptop - makes it nice for travel. Easy plug and play operation. Compact and lightweight. Fits nicely in computer bag. Have had no issues with skipping or not playing clearly.

While it doesn’t make sense in my head that you use a software cd to install an external cd drive, it works. Photos and music and even X-rays. It’s lightweight so it feels flimsy but it’s really not. If that makes sense.